Session 1: Distributing Large Amounts of Data, Natural Language, Identity
Challenges in Constructing a Digital Microfilm Library, Dan R. Olsen, Brigham Young UniversityPaperPresentation
Management and Distribution of a Historical Document Images, Rayman D. Meservy, Stephen W. Liddle, and John W. Welch, Brigham Young UniversityPaperPresentation
Probabilistic Record Linkage for Genealogical Research, John Lawson, David White, Brenda Price, and Ryan YamagataPaperPresentation
Application of Natural Language Processing Techniques to Enhance Web-Based Retrieval of Genealogical Data, Mary D.Taffet, Syracuse UniversityPaper
** Session 2 - Demo Session I**
Results of Just-in-Time Browsing for Digital Microfilm, Douglas Kennard and William Barrett, Brigham Young UniversityPaperPresentation
Zoning Tabular Documents, Heath E. Nielson and William Barrett, Brigham Young UniversityPaperPresentation
Hyperwebs: A Peer to Peer Topology for Distributed Genealogical Databases, Scott Woodfield, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Visualizing Large Pedigree Charts in 3-D Space, Thomas Sederberg and G. Thomas Finnigan, Brigham Young UniversityPaperPresentation
Session 3 - Storing, Retrieving, Sharing, and Visualizing Information
Technology-Independent Information Storage, Steven H. McCown and Michael Leonhardt, Storage Technology CorporationPaperPresentation
An Area-Based Encoding Scheme for Place Names, Kirk DuffinPaper
An Interactive Natural-Language Genealogy Quiz Engine, Aric Bills, Rebecca Rees, Merrill Hutchison, Clint Tustison, Nick Stetich, Mike Manookin, Hans Nelson and Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young UniversityPaperPresentation
DNA Analysis Techniques for Molecular Genealogy, Luke Hutchison and Scott Woodward, Brigham Young UniversityPaperPresentation
Session 4 - Demo Session II
Family Maps, Richard WashburnPaper
PhotoDoc: Batch Processing and Image Enhancement for the Genealogy World, Jeremy WendtPaper
Handwriting Recognition for Genealogical Records, Luke Hutchison and Tom Sederberg, Brigham Young UniversityPaperPresentation
Session 5 - Information Extraction and Evidence - Based Genealogy
Building Databases from Unstructed Original Records Using Off-site Volunteer Readers/Extractors and the Internet, Ray Wright, Joerg Bachmann, Noemi Gergely, JC Avena
Overview of Center for Family History and Genealogy’s Activities, Ray Wright
Efficiently Querying Contradictory and Uncertain Genealogical Data Lars E. Olson and David Embley, Brigham Young UniversityPaperPresentation
Bidirectional Source Linking: Doing Genealogy “Once” and “For All”, Randall Wilson, fonix CorporationPaperPresentation
System for Identity Linking and Research Collaboration Bill Harten, UNIconnectPaperPresentation
Dinner Speech
Randy Bryson, BYU Museum Of Art